The Problems in Youth Baseball

Baseball is no longer a game that is for everybody. It's become a white, alitist sport. In florida, some high level programmes now cost over ten thousand dollars a season. Baseball and its sister sports, softball, increasingly mirror the growing inequality in american life,. dying in cities and booming in the suburbs. If kids are deprived of the opportunity to play baseball as kids, they may be less likely to care about baseball later. We have comodified the play of millions of children into a 19 point two billion dollar business. And weakening volunteer base programes that promise affordable sports for all children.